City
Morning Brew: June 19th, 2007
Photo: "a road less travelled" by blogTO Flickr pooler syncros.
Your morning news roundup for Tuesday June 19th, 2007:
Three drivers are wishing they could turn back time and have been charged following a street race that resulted in the death of a truck driver on highway 400. Police and witnesses hailed the trucker as a hero for having taken action to save other people.
Later in the day a road rage stabbing took place in the resulting congested detour.
A number of suspects that were rounded up in the Jane-Finch gang sweep last week have been released under bail conditions, including Jordan Manners' sister. She will be represented by lawyer Greg Leslie, who will also be representing the three men believed to be the Driftwood Crips gang leaders.
Seven Canadian children and several others around the world are safer today, thanks in part to the efforts of Toronto police in a worldwide internet pedophilia ring bust. Toronto police infiltrated child porn chat rooms, posed as legitimate participants, and aided in the identification of suspects.
The province is injecting $600million into the auto sector in Ontario and wants to see green technologies result in environmentally sound Ontario-built cars. Lots of money is flying around pre-election!
The "support our troops" decals that are on city fire engines and ambulances are getting the yank (pardon the pun) and the order is causing a bit of a stir.
Today's Crossroad Puzzle after the jump...
Recognize this part of the city? Post your answer in the comments, and check for the answer in tomorrow's blogTO Morning Brew.
Yesterday's answer: Ellesmere and Warden, Scarborough.
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To me the 'morality' behind parking tickets is that I am taking up a space someone else needs and I have gone over my alloted time, or not even paid my dues. But this 'morality' is even more applicable to bad driving, which costs the city and everyone else more than what a few errant parkers do. Basically what I'm trying to say is that we should stop buying little Smart cars for the meter maids and have the police really crack down (for an extended period of time, not those lame-ass blitzes) on bad driving techniques. They could even do it by license plate number and since most people just don't have the time to challenge their parking tickets I imagine most would not challenge these either, but at least take them to heart.
I know that was a little long-winded, but you all catch my drift yeah?
The problem as I see it is that there aren't any cops on the highways, ever. While in school I drove 120km every day for 4-5 days a week (stupid? yes. environmentally irresponsible? yes. I'm older and wiser now!) and maybe saw 1 or 2 cruisers all week along the 407, 401, 400, and 404.
It's the same thing now. There doesn't seem to be enough officers out on the street cracking down on terrible driving.
It's been 7 years and I'm still waiting for an ethanol filling station to open anywhere within a 300KM radius of here.